What if we just can't determine

Nightmares from real life

What if revisiting feels

Like we never left the place

What if we carry it with us

Wherever........

Till we're dead

Willy Bach (c) 1991

Footnote: CRAS (Citizen Reality Avoidance Syndrome), it turns out, is much more widespread than VSCRAS (Veterans Stressed by Citizen Reality Avoidance Syndrome), and much more deadly, to other people’s children.

Bill Distler served in Vietnam, he is a member of VFP Chapter 111, Bellingham